How You Endure
“I Have learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures is more important than the thing that must be endured.“ - Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman
Today’s quote brought to you by a man that lived through war. Recessions. Political games. Attacks on him and his character. The Spanish Flu. And the likelihood of a nuclear war. Dean Acheson.
Today, you may not be facing what Acheson faced. Or are you? Are you at war with yourself? Are you suffering from a personal recession? You show up for work and you have to do the work you’re hired to do and play office politics. People you know and those you don’t attack you with verbal assaults. Strangers breaking into other peoples homes or stealing their cars. COVID. And you face so much more.
History is a great guide and teacher. How you get through things is more important than the things you get through. We all have different lives with different things in them. As you endure, it prepares you for the next challenge. The next test. The next time in your life where resilience and strength will be tested and built stronger when you get through. This is what life is. This is how confidence is built. You overcome by showing up and having a way of life you live by. A code. Your own marching orders.
If its humanly possible, you can do it too.
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Thought Provoking Questions : What can you learn from what you’re enduring right now?
Daily I write and release a daily meditation. A quick read. Sharing wisdom and asking thought-provoking questions. Influenced by the obstacles, success and failures in my life and of others. Using history, books, current events, philosophy, and ancient wisdom. These writings are actionable, thought-provoking, designed to make your life better.
These writings are not to push a way of thinking on the reader or to force you into a certain philosophy or methodology. Rather to give you practical and real ways to handle life. This is an added tool. My writing is simply a discussion, a discourse, with all the material I read, watch, hear and consume.